From Barbra Streisand’s Auschwitz Ode to Maya Rudolph’s Motherly Rap, Here’s This Year’s Wildest Emmys Category
variety.comHunter Ingram This year’s Emmy nominees embrace a lot of genres and stories: from high-society culture wars to post-apocalyptic Westerns, Feudal Japan epics, murder podcasts and elementary school hijinks, just to name a few.
But no category is a more mind-boggling exercise in Hollywood Mad Libs than the original music and lyrics lineup. The five nominees all hail from different networks and streamers and span genres that would likely never share a concert lineup.
Here’s a breakdown of this year’s wildest category: “The Medium Time” In “Girls5eva,” scored by comedically genius songs by creator Meredith Scardino and music supervisor Jeff Richmond, it is surprising the only entry to catch the Television Academy’s attention this year is star Sara Bareilles’ notably tender and reflective piece on accepting fame in its other forms.
As the girl group performs to a crowd of no one but family at Radio City Music Hall, Bareilles’ song captures perhaps the thesis of the series: “Grow, trust time will know / That the middle is the riddle of it all / And the medium time is just fine for now.” “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” When “Only Murders in the Building” staged its third season on the Broadway stage, it made sense to call in a few Tony winners to help punch up the authenticity.
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